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Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Latin American Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American [6] [7] writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism , is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits ( La casa de los espíritus , 1982) and City of the Beasts ( La ciudad de ...
Isabel Allende is a Chilean journalist and author born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru. Her best-known works include the novels The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts. She has written ...
Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942, Lima, Peru) is a Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the first successful women novelists from Latin America. Allende was born in Peru to Chilean parents.
Isabel Allende. biography [biography] About Isabel. It is very strange to write one’s biography because it is just a list of dates, events, and achievements. In reality, the most important things about my life happened in the secret chambers of my heart and have no place in a biography. My most significant achievements are not my books, but ...
Isabel Allende. books; my name is emilia del valle; perla the mighty dog; the wind knows my name; violeta; the soul of a woman; a long petal of the sea; in the midst of winter; la ninfa de porcelana; the japanese lover; amor; ripper; maya’s notebook; island beneath the sea; the sum of our days; inés of my soul;
Stephania Taladrid interviews the author Isabel Allende, whose latest novel is “The Wind Knows My Name,” on the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup in Chile.
Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together.
A literary legend, social activist, and feminist icon, Isabel Allende has sold over 77 million books translated into more than 40 languages. The first Spanish-language writer to receive an honorary National Book Award medal, Allende is now the subject of a three-part HBO miniseries, revealing the person behind the legendary literary career spanning four decades.
Isabel Allende received worldwide acclaim when her bestselling first novel, The House of the Spirits, was published in 1982. In addition to launching her career as a renowned author, the book, which grew out of a farewell letter to her dying grandfather, established her as a feminist force in Latin America’s male-dominated literary world. ...
Author Isabel Allende is 71. Her husband is 76, her parents are in their late 90s and her dog, Olympia, is 16. So she’s confronting the issue of aging head-on and thinking hard about how to live passionately through the process. “Society decides when we are old, usually at 65,” says Allende. “But really, we start […] Continue reading